Overview This article is all about leveraging the static network assignment construct in vRA Cloud/8 Cloud Assembly blueprints and the impact this has (currently) on provisioning vSphere VMs. This topic seems to cause lots of head scratching and issues, really because currently if you try and leverage static address assignments (i.e. asking vRA to assign … Continue reading vRA with Cloud-init and Static Networking
Month: Jan 2020
Identity Management – Scale Out via vRSLCM
Overview VMware Identity Manager aka vIDM (soon to be known as Workspace One Access) is a key piece of the vRealize Automation stack. Previous versions of vRA used an embedded build of vIDM within the vRA appliance and allowed the identity management capabilities to scale out as vRA itself scaled. With vRA 8 this is … Continue reading Identity Management – Scale Out via vRSLCM
vRealize Automation – Customizing IP Assignments with vRO
Overview Today I thought I'd get back to vRealize Automation 8, in particular leveraging extensibility. Previously I have shown some examples of breaking out of the provisioning lifecycle to perform some external operations (CMDB updates etc.) however this time I want to look at how you can augment the provisioning process with information from external … Continue reading vRealize Automation – Customizing IP Assignments with vRO
vRealize Operations – Showing Data Frequency and Quantity as Metrics
Overview During the course of content development within vRealize Operations you will come across occasions where you need to know/show how often and how many certain types of behaviors occur within a given time period. Although we can track when a behavior occurs through the use of symptoms and alert definitions as well as adding … Continue reading vRealize Operations – Showing Data Frequency and Quantity as Metrics
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